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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
Change and Cheese
Ware2Go’s CEO Steve Denton explores how the Coronavirus pandemic not only accelerated ecommerce sales but expanded the types of products consumers expected to have shipped to their homes. These changes mean that traditional retailers and ecommerce merchants alike will need to enhance both in-store and online shopping experiences while building a flexible supply chain to support evolving sales strategies.
— 6 min read
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In the News Demand & Inventory Planning
COVID-19 Market Shift Signals an Unprecedented Holiday Season
New Ware2Go survey shows merchants are operating at a pandemic-driven peak already with expectations that a holiday demand spike is still to come.
— 5 min read
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Case studies Demand & Inventory Planning
How O2 Leveraged Flexible Fulfillment to Grow Their Business in a Volatile Market
O2 was founded in 2014 by CrossFit trainer Dave Colina and Dr. Dan Kim, who were both committed to bringing a healthy and effective recovery drink to the market that omitted the extra sugar and artificial flavoring found in most recovery drinks. After discovering some research that touted the profound effects of ingested oxygen on the liver’s ability to process toxins, they created a unique formula of electrolytes, natural caffeine, and added oxygen that they were confident would help athletes recover faster and work out harder the next time they hit the gym.
— 7 min read
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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
Flexible Partnerships Empower Creative Solutions
Like many merchants, O2 pivoted quickly in response to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ll examine how their unique community-first response to the pandemic and flexible end-to-end supply chain grew their business by five fold in a time when many businesses struggled to stay afloat.
— 7 min read
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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
From Sales Tax to Inventory Tax - The Complete Guide for eCommerce Businesses
The nuances of sales and inventory tax may not be top of mind for many merchants, but the impacts of factors such as where inventory is stored and for how long as well as state-by-state economic nexus can make a significant difference when tax season rolls around. We’ve put together a high-level overview of some of these important considerations for merchants to keep in mind as they expand their sales channels and their fulfillment network.
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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
Could Walmart and Target Closing on Thanksgiving Open a Door for SMB’s?
Walmart, followed closely by Target, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Best Buy and Kohl’s, announced that their stores would be closed on Thanksgiving this year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While none of the retailers have announced detailed plans for Black Friday, most have outlined plans to extend holiday shopping deals and enhance online ordering and curbside pick-up options. All of these changes beg the question, what will the historic holiday shopping day look like this year?
— 5 min read
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Topics Demand & Inventory Planning
Welcome to the New Supply Chain
Ware2Go’s CEO Steve Denton explores how the Coronavirus pandemic has accelerated a shift in consumer shopping patterns and how supply chains must adapt to meet new customer expectations for their digital shopping and delivery experience. The demands of the new supply chain require businesses to adopt the concepts of Acceptance, Flexibility, and Acceleration to thrive in this new era of logistics.
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Articles Warehousing & Fulfillment
Top 3 Trends of Today’s Supply Chain
In this new economy small to medium-sized businesses are facing challenges and levels of uncertainty they’ve never faced before. With rapidly changing rates of sales, inventory shortages, and shifting consumer habits, business owners are looking for ways to transform their operations in order to stay relevant to today’s consumers. Ware2Go’s CEO Steve Denton said in a recent interview about the effects of COVID-19 on the retail industry, “A lot of our customers who relied on traditional sales channels struggled early on because they didn’t have fully optimized digital channels. Those that did have fully optimized digital channels were able to make that shift quicker.” Denton identified 3 major trends that are defining this new age of commerce and ways that businesses can succeed in an ever-changing market.
— 7 min read
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Case studies Demand & Inventory Planning
How LS2 Helmets U.S. Used a New Distribution Network To Drive Growth
When LS2, the 2nd largest motorcycle helmet manufacturer in the world, first entered the U.S. market, they were fulfilling orders directly out of their own 30,000 square-foot warehouse in Chicago. But due to the rapid growth they sustained, this single facility could not accommodate the surge in new order volumes, particularly for customers on the West Coast.
— 5 min read
